Specialties & ConditionsAudiology Hearing & Understanding Milestones
Hearing & Understanding Milestones
The following hearing and understanding skills are typically found at the ages indicated below.
- Startles to loud sounds
- Quiets or smiles when you talk
- Seems to recognize your voice and quiets if crying
- Moves eyes in direction of sounds
- Notices toys that make sounds
- Pays attention to music
- Responds to changes in tone of your voice
- Turns and looks in direction of sounds
- Looks when you point
- Turns to own name when you call
- Recognizes words for familiar objects and people, like cup, truck, juice and daddy
- Begins to respond to simple words and phrases, like “No”, “Come here”, and “Want more?”
- Plays games with you, like peekaboo and pat-a-cake
- Listens to songs and stories for a short time
- Points to a few body parts when you ask
- Follow 1-part directions, like “Roll the ball” or “Kiss the baby”
- Understands simple questions, like “Who’s that?” and “Where’s your shoe?”
- Listens to stories, songs, and rhymes for a longer time
- Points to pictures in books when you name them
- Understands opposite words, like go-stop, big-little and up-down
- Follows 2-part directions, like “Get the spoon and put it on the table”
- Understands new words quickly
- Responds when you call from another room
- Understands words for some colors, like red, blue and green
- Understands words for some shapes like circle and square
- Understands word for family, like brother, grandmother and aunt
- Understands words for order, like first, next and last
- Understands words for time, like yesterday, today and tomorrow
- Follows classroom directions, like “Draw a circle on your paper around something you eat”
- Understands most of what is said at home and school